[Mediawiki-l] Enlarging thumbnails

[Evelyn Yoder]

Would it be practical to put the full-sized image inside a table that
has the show/hide option configured? And set 'hide' as the default
setting.



Evelyn Yoder


On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:26 PM, "Sabatino, Rick" <Rick.Sabatino at acs-
inc.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for some advice and you all seem to be pretty
> enterprising.
>
> Here's a little background...
> I am implementing MediaWiki as a catalog for business processes and
> work
> instructions.  Because many of the tasks documented are computer-
> based,
> they include many screen shots of the relevant applications.  For new
> users, these screenshots are often critical to helping them navigate.
> If we were only designing this for new users, we would include larger
> images inline with the instructions.  For experienced users, these
> images can be a frustrating distraction as they try to skim through a
> process with which they are already familiar for only some details.
> The
> middle ground solution was to include the images as thumbnails on the
> right margin.  New users can click to view the full sized image and
> experienced users can navigate through the process with minimal
> disruption by the images.
>
> Here's the challenge...
> I have had some feedback that requiring the user to click on the
> thumbnail and view the full-size image on a separate page, outside the
> context of the task instruction, is not desirable.  I agree it is less
> than ideal.  I have a solution that I know I could implement if I was
> designing a web page, but am not sure how to implement this inside
> MediaWiki.
>
> The image is reduced to thumbnail size on the page, but when the user
> does a mouseover, the image enlarges.  An example of this, complete
> with
> the JavaScript, is located here:
> http://www.nsftools.com/tips/ImageResize.htm.
>
> I was thinking that this might be doable with a template, but before I
> spend a lot of time monkeying around, I wanted to get your advice.
> *    Do you know how to implement this, or something with a similar
> result, using a template or extension?
> *    Is this something that would be overly difficult to implementing
> in MW?
>
> I can't help but think that this functionality would be useful in
> other
> implementations of MW.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Sabatino
>
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